Stories from Friday, February 14, 2025

GERING, Neb. — Sophomore Tripp Raile scored 16 points, juniors Trey Tiller 14 and Miles Pollmann 12 clutch points as the McCook boys outlasted Gering 62-55 Friday night. The Bison are now 15-6 entering Saturday's game at Scottsbluff, who leads all of Class B in power points...

MAXWELL, Neb. — The Medicine Valley boys continued a solid 11-9 season with their 60-46 RPAC win at Maxwell Thursday night. Unfortunately, no other details were obtained. The M.V. girls fell 49-31 despite senior Remmi Stout shooting 50 percent and totaling 12 points...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Nebraska put together its most complete game of the season to knock off No. 17 Maryland, 91-71, at the Xfinity Center on Thursday night. The Huskers, who notched their second win of the season over a top-25 team, snapped a three-game losing streak by dominating the second, third and fourth quarters after the home-standing Terps built a 14-point first-quarter lead. Nebraska outscored the Terps by 42 points over the next 28 minutes to secure a huge road win...

Latest from TJ’s Family Fun Center where these bowlers should be focused more on rolling out their romantic talents going into tonight. Men’s Major Thursdy Nite Pints 219-141 Git ’Em All 201.5-157.5 TJ’s Famly Fun190.5-166.5 Rednecks 188.5-171.5...

Southern Valley’s Tylor Grove broke an Eagles school record with his 22 rebounds againste the Gibbon Buffaloes last weekend.

McCOOK, Neb. — The registration deadline for the 2025 YMCA Spring Adult Volleyball League is now one week away. Divisions are being offered for Competitive and Recreational in both Women’s and Co-Ed. The season begins the week of March 3. Co-Ed will be played on Monday evenings...

McCOOK, Neb. ­— The McCook Community College baseball team began the season in Kansas with a couple games and travels to Texas and Oklahoma this weekend where the team looks for its first wins under Jon Olsen, who is in his 19th year leading the Indians and his 24th overall...

McCOOK, Neb. - Anyone who lives, works, shops, or simply passes through McCook has come into contact with the end product of the Public Works Department. The purview of McCook’s Public Works Department covers a range of under-the-radar services that quietly happen in the background, taken for granted and unnoticed. Public Works is responsible for all those things we too easily forget about when we ask where the heck our tax dollars are going...

CULBERTSON, Neb. - The Bear Cave in Culbertson is under new ownership. Sisters Shawntah McKain and Kami May signed the papers Wednesday, Feb. 12, to become the new owners of Culbertson’s downtown café, The Bear Cave. Since August, McKain and May have been running the restaurant alongside the previous owner, Pete Dack, developing a proof of concept and gaining independence. ...

McCOOK, Neb. - The McCook City Council will hold its next regular meeting on Monday, Feb. 17, at 5:30 p.m. in the McCook City Council Chambers. The agenda includes several key items of interest to the community. The Council will convene a public hearing to receive input on a special exception request by Amanda and Dustin Trew to operate a Bed and Breakfast/Vacation Rental at 806 ½ East 7th Street within a residential medium density district...

As the debate over U.S. policy toward Ukraine continues, positions taken by the Trump Administration have sparked renewed discussion about America’s role in the conflict. Trump’s assertion that he would negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin to “just stop the killing” is, at face value, difficult to argue with. Any effort to bring an end to the war is commendable...